In this year’s programme, visitors to the Ludwig Museum can explore the museum’s collection and the unique universe of the cube houses, as well as listen to the world-famous jazz trumpeter and photographer Till Brönner. There will also be special guided tours, a literary and dance programme, a film screening and even a flashlight midnight walk.
★ EXHIBITIONS ON VIEW★
- floor | TILL BRÖNNER: IDENTITY – LANDSCAPE EUROPE
- floor | THE HUNGARIAN CUBE. MODERNITY AND DWELLING IN THE KÁDÁR ERA
- floor | TIME MACHINE. A SELECTION FROM THE COLLECTION OF THE LUDWIG MUSEUM
Visitors can test the “MyLumu” app and virtual assistant in the museum lobby during the Night of Museums. With Mona’s help, they can solve playful tasks related to 9 works of the Time Machine exhibition, the results of which can be viewed in an exciting data visualisation (designer: Mona Birkás).
★ PROGRAMMES ★
16:00–18:00 | Let’s Play Contemporary Art
Visitors can again try out the special games and board games designed by METU students inspired by the artworks in the museum’s Time Machine exhibition. In close collaboration with the Ludwig Museum, students of graphic design at the university have been involved in the design of games, board games and tools that can be integrated into museum education programmes. The unique games, which have so far only been prototyped, will bring visitors closer to the works and to contemporary art. The games are available on a first-come, first-served basis.
Venue: 3. floor exhibition space
17:00–18:00 | General construction “in miniature” competition results announcement, awards ceremony and round table discussion
In the Ludwig Museum, the exhibition The Hungarian Cube. Modernity and Dwelling in the Kádár Era opened on 18 May 2024. The main sponsor of the exhibition was LATEREX Építő Zrt. Together they launched a joint competition to involve those who live in this type of building in the project and to show visitors the results of the renovation work carried out by the applicants. Jury members included József Készman, art historian and curator of the exhibition, Attila Sztankov, CEO of LATEREX Építő Zrt., and Sándor Őze, editor of Építészfórum. After the announcement of the results, a round table discussion with the jury members will take place under the title The Die is Cast: The Present and the Future of the Cube Houses.
Venue: 2. floor exhibition space
18:00–22:00 | Build Your Own Cube
The workshop accompanies the exhibition The Hungarian Cube. Modernity and Dwelling in the Kádár Era. It aims to introduce participants to the world of iconic buildings of the era in an interactive way. Throughout the programme, participants of all ages can build their own cube houses using a variety of tools, while deepening their knowledge of architecture and history, discovering the cube houses inside and out, and understanding their history and significance in the context of the era.
Venue: 2. floor Museum Education Studio
18:00–19:00 | The Concept of Time in Contemporary Literature – A Conversation with Éva Bánki and Attila Thimár
Éva Bánki: József Attila Prize-winning writer, poet, literary historian. She began her career as a researcher of medieval poetry and currently teaches creative writing and world literature at the Faculty of Arts of the Károli Gáspár Reformed University. She has published historical fiction, fantasy, travel fiction, a novel for young people, and a collection of short stories and poetry.
Attila Thimár: József Attila Prize-winning Hungarian literary historian, editor, university lecturer, editor-in-chief of the journal Kortárs: irodalmi és kritikai folyóirat
Venue: 3. floor exhibition space
19:00–19:20 | The Centre of the Circle, or Silence in the Hurricane – contemporary dance performance in the exhibition space
Three works by Kamilla Szíj are also on display in the exhibition Time Machine. In these delicate works, orderliness and lightness flow into infinity. The dancer displays the same through her body in space. Dance, choreography, concept: Tímea Fülöp, dancer. She has been member of Yvette Bozsik Company since 2001 and participated in many co-productions in the Hungarian and international art scene. Music: Berta Bánki, flutist, member of the Hungarian State Opera Orchestra, student of the Doctoral School of the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music. She is a regular performer with the UMZE Chamber Ensemble playing contemporary classical music and Dániel Szabó Nonett playing contemporary jazz.
Venue: 3. floor exhibition space
19:00–20:00 | A guided tour by artist József Szolnoki through the exhibition The Hungarian Cube.
Visual artist and pseudo-anthropologist József Szolnoki is one of the exhibiting artists of the exhibition, who traveled the whole country with photographer Katharina Roters as part of a fine art project between 2003 and 2012 to photograph village houses, concentrating on the "post-folkloric" elements that decorated the facades of the tent-roofed cube houses.
Modernity and Dwelling in the Kádár Era The exhibition presents the cultural context and genealogy of one of the most grassroots and defining forms of 20th century Hungarian architecture. Using a variety of artistic media and immersive installations, it introduces the visitor to the origins of the house type, showing its development and impact on the history of Hungarian visuality.
Venue: 2. floor exhibition space
20:00–21:00 | A guided tour by Gergely Prőhle through Till Brönner’s exhibition
Guided tour by Gergely Prőhle, former German ambassador and director of the Otto Habsburg Foundation. Photographer and musician Till Brönner is a German-born, dedicated European artist. Raised in Italy, with strong ties to the German Rhineland and, as a trumpet player, to the music of North America, he has constantly sought his identity across many worlds. It is precisely this intercontinental existence that has made him aware of the global significance of Europe, and his photographic work emphasises this significance time and again. Whether it is portraits, landscapes, industrial landscapes or architecture, Brönner has been a sensitive observer for many years, documenting the diverse developments and social currents of his European homeland through the medium of photography.
Venue: 1. floor exhibition space
21:00–22:00 | Joint concert by Till Brönner and the Balázs Elemér Group
The Balázs Elemér Group was founded in 2000 by jazz drummer and composer Elemér Balázs. The group has performed at the Blue Note Club in New York and at many prestigious European festivals. The Group’s unique sound is characterised by a melodic focus and distinctive rhythms, complemented by a suggestive contrast between male and female vocals. Their music is extremely varied, often venturing into the ethno style, and listeners may also discover folk music motifs and melodies. TILL BRÖNNER is now the most successful German jazz musician. Although he is regarded as a “trumpet virtuoso”, his extraordinary feel for sound and melody has earned him the reputation of the “German Chet Baker”. Brönner comes from a family of musicians and had a classical education, followed by studies in jazz trumpet at the Cologne University of Music with Jon Eardley, one of Charlie Parker’s and Chet Baker’s companions back in the 1950s.
Venue: 1. floor exhibition space
22:00–23:30 | Film screening: Másik Magyarország (Another Hungary)
Imre Bukta, one of the leading figures of Hungarian contemporary art, moved back to his native village, Mezőszemere in Heves County, more than ten years ago, to create an opportunity for renewal and a new identity for himself and the community through his approach and presence there. The film Another Hungary is also an imprint of this search for identity, an accurate recognition of the situation: where are we, what do we have, and what can we do about it? Not without self-irony, humour and absurdity. At the same time, it is an extremely hard-hitting vision of a world that has been shaped by the disappearance of traditional village culture and its half-hearted modernisation (Source: port.hu) (Hungarian documentary, 51 min, 2013, directed by Dénes Nagy).
Venue: 2. floor Museum Education Studio
23:00–00:00 | A guided tour by curator Krisztina Szipőcs through the exhibition Time Machine
A special event for the public is the curated guided tour through the exhibition Time Machine. The exhibition at the Ludwig Museum is not about the science-fiction possibility of time travel, but examines the relationship between time and art from different perspectives, and sees the works themselves as time machines that allow us to travel mentally. From the museum’s collection of about 800 pieces, the curator has selected works that reveal different aspects of personal, artistic and historical time from the curator’s personal point of view.
Venue: 3. floor exhibition space
0:00–01:00 | Little Night Lights – a flashlight tour through Till Brönner's exhibition
An exceptional opportunity to take a walk in the dark (well, almost dark) in the Ludwig Museum exhibition. A single flashlight will help you to find the passage between the rooms and, of course, to “highlight” the works and exciting details of an artist who always travels with his trumpet and never without his camera. The exhibition is open during this period by guided tour only. The number of participants is limited: 20–25 people. Admission on a first-come, first-served basis.
Venue: 1. floor exhibition space
Please be informed that our events will be recorded by sound and video, from which the Ludwig Museum may use details to promote the museum and its programs and for other promotional purposes. By participating in our events, you agree that you may appear on the recordings, but you may not make any claim against the use of the recording with the Ludwig Museum or third parties authorized by it.
